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Shows & fairs, 1954

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Royal Show: Entries Up in Wine Section

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 3

Championship awards offered for Australian wines and brandy at the 1954 Sydney Royal Show have1 attracted over 50 per cent…

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Tumbarumba Show

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 10

The Tumbarumba Show this year, to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 9 and 10, should be an all-time record…

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Jingellic Show

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 4

This year the Jingellic and District P. A. and H. Society annual Show promises to be an outstanding success, as entries are in…

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Interest in High School's Swim Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 2

The Wagga High School annual swimming carnival will be held at the Wagga City Baths this morning…

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Last S. W. swim carnival will be at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 8

After the successes or their swimmers at the Wagga carnival on Saturday night, the Wagga Swimming Club is sending a big team to the season's last…

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Next Month’s Gundagai Show Should Attract Entries

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 5

The committee of the Gundagai P. and A. Society are hopeful that next month’s Gundagai Show will break all existing records. The number of entries so far received indicate that there is every reason for this confidence…

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Wallendbeen News Junior Cricketers Show From Pretty Wedding in St. Clement's Church

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 2

Cricket: The cricket competition ended abruptly for Wallendbeen a fortnight ago With the local, team occupying the same position on the ladder as last year-second, last…

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Preparing Pigs for Exhibition

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 6

Pig breeders, noting the approach of the country shows and the Royal in Sydney at Easter are intensifying the preparation of their exhibits. Preparation really commences…

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Wagga Keen on Junee Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 6

Many Wagga Amateur Swimming and Life Saving club members are making the trip to Junee tomorrow night for the South Western Districts carnival…

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Batlow Methodist Flower Show

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 1

The annual flower show of the Batlow Methodist Church was held in the Batlow Literary Institute on Saturday last, 20th…

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Combined High Schools Swimming Carnival Wagga School Included

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 1

The Combined High Schools Swimming Carnival will be held in the Griffith Baths on Friday next, March 5…

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Swim Carnival To-morrow Night. Big Programme Draws Inter-town Entries

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 4

A swimming carnival, in-volving more than 65 heats and finals, will be staged in Junee to-morrow, night by the…

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Show Business Being the Weekly Doings of the Revue Club

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 1

ANNUAL MEETING:--At the annual meeting of the Revue Club last Wednesday night at the C.W.A, Rooms, last year's doings…

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At S.w.d. Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 1

THREE OF Temoros winning women's team in the Paragon Cup relay at the Junee…

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Mr. Stan Glasscock to Judge at Sydney Show

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 4

A tribute to his great knowledge of the wool growing industry has been paid by the Sydney Royal Show…

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Successful Carnival Staged in Junee on Saturday Night by Local Swimming Club

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 5

DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE PROGRAMME CONTAINED OVER SIXTY EVENTS, THE ORGANISATION ESTABLISHED BY THE JUNEE AMATEUR SWIMMING CLUB CAME THROUGH THE…

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Wagga Diggers' Bowls Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 8

George Croot, Jim Miles Tom Bardwell and Wally Wild won the final match when 21 teams competed at the Wagga…

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C.b.h.s. to Hold Swim Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 5

The Christian Brothers' High School will conduct their first annual swimming carnival at the Wagga Olympic…

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Buddy Williams Rolls Royce as Proof Show's Success

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 6

A sharp-shooting singer and yodeller drives around in a Phantom "2" Rolls Royce, the only car of its type in Australia…

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Seixas says: "Our crowd fair"

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 8

Victor Seixas. America's No. 2 ranking tennis player, said on his arrival in Philadelphia recently:…

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